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July 1, 2010

Learning Objectives

Students will:

  • connect themes from non-fiction to themes from fiction.

  • review verbs -- transitive, intransitive, linking, and helping verbs.

  • monitor comprehension while reading.

  • learn to identify and create similes.

Homework:

  • Finish your simile report.
  • Mr. Devine is checking all today's work tomorrow.

Reminders:





Agenda


Grammar Practice: Verbs
  • On page 55-56 of the Grammar Workbook, identify the verb and then label it as Transitive or Intransitive.
  • Show the Workbook on the ELMO.

Before Reading "Before the End of Summer"

Writing Section: Quick Write -- Sharecropping
  • Now that you have read an article and watched a video about sharecropping, answer the following questions:
    • What was life for sharecroppers?
    • Why were so many sharecroppers poor?

Grammar and Writing: Verbs

Grammar and Composition Handbook
  • Complete: in groups of 3 to 4.
    • 1-10 page 107
    • Find each verb--many have more than one verb.
  • Review as a class.

Reading Section: Begin Reading, "Before the End of Summer" pages 25-37
  • Review "Build Background"
  • Read the following quotation from America.gov:
"With few jobs available in the small towns, most rural blacks were forced to make whatever arrangements they could with the remaining white landowners. Sharecropping – in which blacks were provided with credit for tools, seeds, living quarters, and food in return for a share of the crops raised on another's land – became the means of subsistence and the way of life, just as it was for many poor whites who had lost their land." -- America.gov
  • Take your SFV out to reference while we read.
  • Stop to write summary sentences, Cornell Style, as we read.
    • Identify the page number and the paragraph number on the left.
    • Write a summary sentence or two on the left.

Writing Section: Simile Report
  • Find 2 similes from the part of the story we have read so far.
    • Explain simile.
  • Copy the similes on the left side of your Cornell Notes.
  • Answer the following questions about each simile on the right side of your notes:
    • What is the simile describing?
    • Explain the description--what does it mean?
  • Write a simile of your own to describe one of the following:
    • The lives if sharecroppers.
    • One of the characters in "Before the End of Summer"
      • Write your simile on the left side of your notes.
      • Explain your simile on the right side of your notes.
  • Draw a picture or find a picture and put it in your notes to show one of the similes in your report.

Continue reading the story if time permits.